306 SUMMER FLOWERS. 



yellow spot in the throat. Heaths and pastures. Fl. July 

 to September. 



(245) Rhinanthus. HATTLE. 



R. Crista-galli : annual; stems erect, glabrous or slightly 

 hairy, ^-l foot high, simple or slightly branched ; leaves oppo- 

 site, lanceolate, and coarsely-toothed, the floral ones broader, 

 shorter, and more cut at the base ; flowers in a loose leafy 

 spike, yellow, often with a purple spot on the upper, or on 

 both lips. Meadows and pastures. Fl. June. 



(246) Melampyrum. COW-WHEAT. 



M. pratense : stem erect or ascending, glabrous or nearly 

 so, 4-1 foot high, with very spreading, opposite branches ; 

 leaves lanceolate, the floral ones distant from each other, 

 short, and often toothed at the base ; flowers yellow, in dis- 

 tant axillary pairs, all turned one way. Woods and bushy 

 places. Fl. July, August, 



(247) Orobanche. BROOMRAPE. 



O. major : plant at first pale-yellow, soon becoming a dingy 

 purplish-brown ; stem simple, stout, erect, 1-2 feet high, with 

 lanceolate scales ; flowers closely sessile, forming a dense 

 spike half the length of the stem, the corolla-tube nearly as 

 broad as long, curved, with a very oblique limb, the upper lip 

 entire or shortly two-lobed, the lower one three-lobed ; upper 

 part of the style and stamens usually covered with short glan- 

 dular hairs, which are wanting in the lower parts. Parasitical 

 on the roots of the Broom, more rarely on those of the Furze. 

 Fl. June, July. 



Several other species are found, though less frequently, as 



